Property tax increases, 2013–2026

The overall increase, where the City stated one

Sources: City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2022 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2022-10-01) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2022. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2021 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2021-04-29) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2021. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2018 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2018-10-04) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2018. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2017 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2017-06-04) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2017. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2016 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2016-06-08) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2016. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2015 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2015-06-23) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2015. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2014 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2015-03-12) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2014. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2013 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2014-01-07) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2013. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. All retrieved August 9, 2026.

Three years — 2019, 2020 and 2023 — are missing from that table on purpose: the table holds only figures the City stated as one number, and in those years the City stated components instead. (The chart draws those years, and 2024–2026, as sums of stated components, marked as derived.) For 2019 the City stated "a property tax increase of 1.88% to deliver City services, plus a 1% increase for the Dedicated Infrastructure Renewal Fund". For 2020 it stated "a property tax increase of 1.96% to deliver City services and services provided by our service partners, plus a 1% increase" for the same fund. For 2023 it stated that Council "froze spending on City Hall's Operating Budget", raised the infrastructure fund contribution to 2% (half funded from a reserve), and approved the service partner portion separately at 1.89%. None of those years came with a single combined figure, and this site does not add percentages the City did not.

Sources: City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2019 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2019-07-26) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2019. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2020 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2020-05-29) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2020. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2023 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2023-05-14) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2023. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. All retrieved August 9, 2026.

The City-operations piece on its own

From 2017 the City began stating the city-services portion separately from the infrastructure levy; since 2024 it is the number the "0% budget" headlines refer to. The 2024 and 2025 rows are the approved statements from the City's post-adoption releases, recovered from the Internet Archive on August 17, 2026 — and 2024 carries a correction worth naming: the budget book recommended a 1.06% City-operations increase, and Council froze spending instead, so the recommended figure this page once showed has been replaced by the approved one. The 2026 approval status is on the budget page.

Sources: Executive Summary — 2026 Business Plan & Operating Budget, City of Barrie. Original document. States the Mayor directed a 0% operating budget for City services for 2026 under Strong Mayor legislation. Retrieved August 9, 2026. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2025 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. With the December 11, 2024 release "Council endorses Mayor's 2025 budget": "City Council approved a zero per cent increase to the City's Operating Budget for the third year in a row, while continuing the contribution of 2 per cent for the Infrastructure Investment Funding levy." No overall increase was stated for 2025. Retrieved August 17, 2026. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2024 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. With the December 6, 2023 release "Council endorses City's portion of the 2024 budget": Council "froze spending on the City's Operating Budget for the second year, while continuing the contribution of 2 per cent for the Infrastructure Investment Funding levy" — the APPROVED figure, which supersedes the book's recommended 1.06%. No overall increase was stated for 2024, a break from the 2013-2018 practice; the release also notes "several amendments". Retrieved August 17, 2026. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2023 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2023-05-14) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2023. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. Retrieved August 9, 2026. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2019 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2019-07-26) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2019. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. Retrieved August 9, 2026. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2018 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2018-10-04) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2018. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. Retrieved August 9, 2026. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2017 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2017-06-04) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2017. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. Retrieved August 9, 2026.

What it did to a typical tax bill

These figures cover the City portion of the bill only. The education portion is levied by the Province and is not included. Ontario has not reassessed property values since 2016, so a "typical home" is a figure derived from a frozen assessment base rather than from what a house would sell for today.

Sources: City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2021 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2021-04-29) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2021. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2015 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2015-06-23) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2015. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. City of Barrie budget page as it stood after the 2014 budget was adopted, City of Barrie. Original document. An Internet Archive capture (2015-03-12) of the City's own budget page, retrieved for the sentence stating what Council approved for 2014. The City's wording changes year to year, so the label on each row is quoted verbatim from this page. All retrieved August 9, 2026.

Note what happened to the "typical home" between those rows: assessed $277,000 in 2014, $367,550 in 2021 — and Ontario has not reassessed property values since 2016, so the later figure reflects a definition change (the 2021 wording averages in town homes and apartments), not just market movement. This is why the dollar figures carry their basis and are not drawn as one line.

Most of these figures come from Internet Archive captures of the City's budget page as it stood after each year's adoption — the City rewrites that page every cycle, so the historical statements survive only in the captures, each linked from the source lines above and archived locally.